A breezy, sunny and dry day.
The potentially interesting gull (is there such a thing? I hear some of you ask) didn't show up today and various birders on our WhatsApp group sent in their thoughts, suggesting it might well be just a skinny Herring Gull - or words along those lines.
A Sandwich Tern or two has been parading up and down between Bruichladdich and Port Charlotte yesterday and today - as they so often do in early spring, before vanishing for good later. Talking of vanishing, Jim Wells contacted me to say that a Red-breasted Goose has been seen, with Barnacle Geese, on N. Uist yesterday, which could well be "our" bird, now heading off, albeit in the totally wrong direction for the species, with "our" Barnies going to Iceland and on to Greenland.
Mary-Ann Featherstone reports a Blackcap at Bowmore yesterday and Angharad Ward saw a female Blackcap at Kinnabus this morning. Also at Kinnabus, David D. confirms the continued presence of the Yellowhammer, while on The Oa, American Monument trail a lone Redwing reminds us that it still isn't fully summer yet, though two Swallows there gives us hope. Alistair reports Goldcrests and Willow Warblers in the Woodland Trail at Gruinart, plus House and Sand Martins and a Little Egret on the floods, while on the other side of the loch Louise Muir had 70 Golden Plover at Killinallan. Bill Bealey saw a Hen Harrier at Duich and Hannah Stanger had dolphins at Lagavulin.
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